-- by William F. Hinbern, World Famous Weight Training Authority, author, collector and seller of Strongman memorabilia, books, courses, etc.

Here is the long-awaited strength training manual by Brooks Kubik – National Bench PressChampion and popular magazine writer for the blue bloods of the strength training world.Written for those of us who are interested in STRENGTH rather than the APPEARANCE of strength, here for the first time, he details in one volume many of the most result producingmethods for not only packing on the beef but for developing truly useful slabs of muscle inthe grand tradition of the oldtime strongmen. If you are looking for an alternative style of training for real honest-to-goodness strength, then this is the ticket!Somehow in our quest for size and strength we in the Iron Game have lost direction. We floataimlessly like balloons, caught and carried by any vagrant breeze or “new” training system,always changing direction, always moving and never getting anywhere. The author grabs us by the ankles, pulls us back to earth, slaps us across the face like a cold shower, and gives us arefreshing insight, a redefined approach to training for massive, brute strength. He doesn'tclaim to have invented anything new; rather, he has rediscovered and unearthed the trainingmethods of the old masters, our forefathers in methodical, progressive resistance training.Educational, inspirational, practical, this training manual is destined to be a classic strengthtraining textbook and will find a hallowed place in the archives of every serious strengthathlete.If you are serious like me, you will order two copies. One to set on your strength library book shelf and one to use constantly as a source of inspiration till it's dog eared!After digesting this huge iron pill, I now await my second dose. Volume two.